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* ProDom PROTEIN DOMAIN MAIL SERVER AVAILABLE *
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This is a general annoucement of the ProDom protein domain mailserver
available at:
prodom at toulouse.inra.fr
ProDom is an automatically compiled database of protein domain families
(Sonnhammer & Kahn, 1994, Protein Science, in press). It is useful for
analyzing the domain organization of protein sequences.
The ProDom mailserver allows one to:
* Compare an amino acid or nucleic acid sequence to the domain family
entries in the ProDom database. Using the BLAST algortihm, the query
sequence is compared to the consensus sequence derived from each
domain family.
* Retrieve domain family entries. Using FETCHDOM the mailserver retrieves
each domain family as a multiple alignment of homologous amino acid
segments and includes the consensus sequence derived from the alignment.
* Retrieve the domain organization of proteins found in SwissProt release
24.0, using ASKDOM.
For more information, retrieve the helpfile for the ProDom mailserver by
mailing a message to prodom at toulouse.inra.fr with the word HELP on a single
line in the body of the message.
Elizabeth Greene, Jerome Gouzy and Daniel Kahn
Laboratoire de Biologie Moleculaire
des Relations Plantes-Microorganismes,
CNRS-INRA
BP 27
31326 Castanet-Tolosan Cedex
France
eagreene at toulouse.inra.frgouzy at toulouse.inra.frdkahn at toulouse.inra.fr